Off in the depths of the QAnon and PizzaGate corners of the internet, conspiracists swear Donald Trump is quietly preparing charges to bring down notorious sex trafficking circles operated by celebrities. Back in reality, the Financial Times reports the Trump administration is pressuring Romanian authorities to let Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate travel […]
Meta Says It’ll Tattle to Trump If EU Keeps Being Mean
“Daaaaaaaaad, the Europeans are picking on me again!” Alright, so that’s not a direct quote from Meta’s chief of global affairs Joel Kaplan, who spoke at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, but it’s not far off. According to Bloomberg, Kaplan popped over to Europe to let political leaders there know Meta “won’t shy away” […]
Trump Taps Former Amazon Exec to Oversee Worker’s Safety on the Job
Under the guise of advancing bureaucratic “efficiency,” the new Trump administration has wasted no time in swiftly gutting all of the federal agencies that are responsible for protecting worker rights and consumer safety. Now, in one of the most egregious decisions yet, Trump has tapped a former executive from Amazon—a company that has repeatedly tangled […]
Lawsuit to Stop Elon Musk From Decimating Government Gets a Tough Judge
Donald Trump’s administration has been hit with a flurry of lawsuits over the blatantly illegal actions it’s taken since the president was sworn in on Jan. 20. But one new case against Elon Musk, the billionaire who’s currently trying to dismantle federal agencies under the pretext of fighting “fraud,” may be a tough one for […]
Trump Says He Wants to Get Rid of Nukes. He Spent His First Presidency Making That Impossible
Between Donald Trump’s words and his actions falls the nuclear shadow. Yesterday while speaking in the Oval Office, President Trump fantasized about cutting the U.S. military budget in half and stressed the need to get rid of nuclear weapons. “There’s no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons, we already have so […]
Trump Says He Wants to ‘Denuclearize’ as European Countries Grow Concerned About Alliances
President Donald Trump said he’d like the U.S. to “denuclearize” along with Russia and China, with the goal of cutting America’s military budget in half. The comments come as government officials in Europe were reportedly alarmed over Trump’s recent comments about the war between Russia and Ukraine. Trump made the remarks about his plans for […]
Trump Says Putin Agreed to Negotiations for Ending Ukraine War as U.S. Releases Cybercriminal
The U.S. government is releasing Alexander Vinnik, a Russian cybercriminal who allegedly laundered millions, as part of a prisoner exchange with Russia, according to a report from the Associated Press. Vinnik ran BTC-e, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, and allegedly laundered crypto for Fancy Bear, the Russian group that’s believed to have hacked […]
Ford CEO Isn’t Exactly Thrilled by Trump’s Tariff Strategy
One significant difference between Donald Trump’s first term and his second is the sheer amount of acquiescence and knee-bending corporate America appears willing to do in response to his norm-breaking behavior. But at least one major American executive is starting to crack under the pressure of the Trump tariff regimen: Ford CEO Jim Farley is […]
FCC Targets Comcast Over DEI Initiatives, Because of Course
Comcast is the latest target of the Federal Communications Commission’s new chairman, Brendan Carr, who has decided to go after the company over its DEI programs. DEI stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and refers to initiatives with the purpose of hiring and supporting employees from underrepresented backgrounds. The Verge reported Wednesday that Carr asked […]
Edits to Vera Rubin’s Biography Downplay the Need for Women in Science Amid Federal DEI Crackdown
It’s been less than a month since President Donald Trump declared war on diversity and inclusion at federal agencies. NASA was ordered earlier this month to scrub its sites of “anything specifically targeting women (women in leadership, etc.)” and now an important telescope project has edited its biography of astronomer Vera Rubin to remove information […]